The Washington Post, March 18th, 1990
During a week packed with political excitement, it was Dmitri Likhachev, the oldest member of the Soviet parliament, who provided one of the most electrifying moments of all. The 84-year-old literary historian from Leningrad told his fellow deputies that he had vivid memories of the 1917 Russian Revolution and was afraid that history might be in the process of repeating itself. The Soviet Union today, he said, reminded him of those turbulent times: a country awash with meetings and emotions. The Congress of People's Deputies heeded Likhachev's advice to grant Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ex...
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